by: JOEL DAY Links between the Amazon rainforest fires and a recent lawsuit won by an forest tribe against a large oil company have been made in shock claims on social media. The Waorani people of Pastaza are an indigenous tribe from the Ecuadorian Amazon and have lived in the rainforest for generation on generation. Although the …
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Wildfires in the Amazon
The Brazilian Amazon is ablaze as a record number of fires continue to ravage the vast rainforest. The Brazilian Army has been deployed to help tackle the vicious fires after the nation’s government faced mounting international pressure to take more action to tackle them. There have been a record number of wildfires in the Amazon …
What’s happening in the Amazon?
The Amazon is burning. Fires are raging in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, known affectionately as the lungs of the Earth, and the citizens of the world, including European and United Nations leaders, are worried. The Amazon rainforest covers 5.5 million square kilometres over several countries: from the middle of Brazil to Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname …
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